Super Joe Flacco says no to cold weather Super Bowl

With the two New York teams hosting the Super Bowl next year, and the Broncos in the process of bidding on the Super Bowl for the years 2018, 2019 or 2020, I asked Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco if he had an opinion on playing the league’s ultimate game in a “cold-weather” venue.

“Yeah, I think it’s retarded,” Flacco said at his Super Bowl press gathering Monday. “I probably shouldn’t say that. I think it’s stupid. If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium. Then you can get one. Other than that I don’t really like the idea. I don’t think people would react very well to it, or be glad to play anybody in that kind of weather.”

Fascinating – maybe this baby boy athlete needs to look at the history of the game (think about the “Ice Bowl”). My belief is that the Super Bowl should be rotated through ALL the teams – and if a WIMP whether it’s a player or member of the media, half time entertainer or a fan cannot cope with the venue, tough!

Why should the championship game be played in some dreadfully sterile domed stadium that lacks any outdoor elements that have made football fun and exciting to watch over the years? I like seeing breath vapor from cold January/February weather, mud, grass stains on uniforms, and the crowd bundled up and cheering like mad despite the cold weather.

If the NHL can play the Winter classic in the great outdoors in Canada and the US why can’t the Super Bowl be played in the elements? Oh wait, the halftime act would have a hard time lip syncing because their teeth would be chattering…after all that is what people tune in for…the sideshow.

The Ice Bowl was a classic. I agree with rotating it to a different stadium each season not based on whether they have a roof or not.

teebs

I think the idea is retarded as well. Who the hell cares if Elway wasn’t named VP of the year anyway. I thought the goal was to win the Superbowl not grandstand and pander to the media about how great this team is/was. Seems to me Elway and the Broncos have created their own little circus, in an attempt to focus attention from spending 100 mill on an old guy with a dead arm. One and Done did nothing to make me change my mind, SHOULDA KEPT TEBOW!

Todd

Should of kept Tebow ???? Wow ! We could been our shitty 8-8 AGAIN !!! Wake up dude !!

http://www.facebook.com/robert.pickle.9 Robert Pickle

Tebow IS a great guy, but the Jets needed him more. Maybe if he had gone to New England or New Orleans he would have had a chance to play or even start, but NOBODY was going to beat out Mark Sanchez… 😉 Hee Hee

They may have to play the post season in cold weather, why not the super bowl? They should made the previous years pro bowl decide the next year’s super bowl venue, and not do this neutral site anyway. That would make the pro bowl worth something again.

http://www.facebook.com/brice.m.grabast Brice Mason Grabast

since when do we care what joe never won anything in his life flacco thinks ?

Using the R word is politically incorrect. Flacco is soooo wrong for speaking his little mind aloud. He is the spokes person for Special Olympics Md. If he could openly says this on his biggest media day what does he say behind closed doors. He needs to donate his pay check to Special Olympics Md. A lot is being said about athletes disgracing gay people, Flacco’s comment are worse.

newsflash joe nobody in this league has any respect for you nor do they think you are an elite quarterback one game does not make you elite and btw trent dilfer won a superbowl is he elite ? cold weather is part of the game if you don’t like it then retire and move to florida with your big fat contract that they are gona regret because they wont have the money to keep all the good players around you and are going to find out you are a sub par quarterback that was gift wrapped a win over denver, you joe are a retard

Nicki Jhabvala is a Broncos beat writer for The Denver Post. She was previously the digital news editor for sports. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor. She also spent two years as a home page editor at the New York Times.